Awe he's so cute!
Duo froze. This wasn't who he was expecting to see sitting on the counter. Hell, he wasn't expecting anything to be sitting on the counter! From this distance, Duo couldn't see the size of the figure, but the shape was defiantly that of a person. Duo quietly snuck closer, thinking that the person hadn't noticed his ascending figure, but was horribly mistaken. Suddenly, the light switch that was by the sink flicked on. Duo was temporarily blinded by the light, but once his eyes adjusted Duo saw...Heero sitting on the counter?
"Wha?"
Oh crap. Heero wasn't just sitting on the counter… He was sitting on the counter besides the garbage disposal, with a pack of cigarettes held in one small hand. THE ONLY PACK OF CIGARETTES IN THE HOUSE WAS BEING HELD OVER THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL! Well, at least it wasn't on. As if reading Duo's mind, Heero impartially flicked a switch just under the light switch. The sink began to rumble menacingly . And that would be the garbage disposal.
"Now Heero, don't do anything stupid." Duo tried to coax watching as the kitten boy continued to blankly stare at him, his face changing into a subtle smirk when he looked at the disposal. "Don't you dare! I'll...I'll give you candy!" Great, now I'm bribing a five year old with candy, guess I shouldn't be the one to teach him not to take candy from strangers. Heero genuinely looked interested at this new proposal of candy. Duo felt hope spark in his heart, until that crafty child let go off the package, emotionlessly watching the small pack of tobacco fall down the drain, directly followed by a churning and medium pitched grinding.
Duo could only stare in shock. His precious cigarettes down the drain, drooped by Heero. He didn't want candy? Duo continued to blankly stare at the sink, unaware that the lights and disposal had been switched off. Heero slid off the counter, looking satisfied.
Duo had no clue where he was in the darkness, and could not even see his hands in front of his face. Still bewildered by his ordeal, he let himself be lead blindly back to his room by Heero, his hand enclosed around Heero's smaller one. After a moment, he realized that he was outside his bed room door, just standing there. Duo looked down and the little boy, still holding his hand. He noticed that the small boy was looking shyly at the ground, ears perked forward and a little foot scuffing at the carpet. Crouching down, Duo asked.
"What's wrong Heero?"
Heero looked up at him with his big blue eyes, and after a moment of staring intently at Duo, he leaned up and licked Duo's bandaged forehead ,and ran down the hall to his own room. The small muffle sound of feet padding on the ground echoed down the hall. After one last look at the now empty hall, Duo smiled, and steeped into his own room. If Heero can quit smoking then I can too. Was Duo's last thought as he drifted off to sleep.
It was early Saturday morning when Quatre reluctantly made his way down the stairs, and into the kitchen to start making breakfast for the rest of the household. Heero was lucky that it was Quatre's week to cook or he would have been sent to the hospital with food poison from Duo's cooking. The others had built up immunity to his infamous recipes, but a new victim not accustomed to them, was a goner.
The coffee machine was working hard churning and bubbling as Quatre took the garbage out . Quatre was half way down the driveway, when he heard an unusually loud click behind him. You know, the kind of click in a horror movie when the door locks behind you and there's a killer hidden somewhere in the room, ready to gouge your eyes out, and make a living zombie out of your mutilated body. That kind of click.
Quatre quickly turned around, expecting to see a killer with a knife raised above his head, but instead he met with an empty driveway. Scolding himself for being too paranoid, he walked back, looking slightly worried the whole way from the garbage can and to the door. Once Quatre reached the door… It wouldn't open. But I didn't lock it, and our doors don't lock automatically, don't they? After a few more times of trying the door handle, Quatre decided that trying not to wake the others wasn't a option anymore, and press the doorbell. The ring tone mimicked the song 'the candy shop' ,chiming through the house(1) Damn you Duo and your stupid ring tones. After the song played over, and over again, bordering on the twelfth time, Quatre was ready to kill someone. That someone, being Duo. Since the front door wasn't open, Quatre moved around the house and looked through all the windows trying to open them and finding all the windows locked shut.The only logical option left to poor Quatre was to try to get in through the roof. Although, Quatre had climbed the rose trellis and had been on the roof before…Getting in through the roof didn't seem like such a bright idea. The only thing that offered him a remote chance of entrance was the chimney.
"Duo?" Wufei started, sitting down in the living room beside Duo, who was watching MTV with the sound blaring loud enough that Wufei's voice was almost drowned out by it. "DUO! WAS THAT THE DOOR BELL?" Wufei yelled again.
"WHAT!"
"DID THE DOOR BELL RING?"
"DO I LIKE TO DANCE IN THE SPRING!"
"NO! DID THE…" Wufei trailed off, grabbing the remote and switching off the TV before Duo could stop him. "I said, did the door bell ring?"
"WHAT?"
"THE DOOR!" Wufei gestured to the door ."DID IT RING?"
"I DIDN'T" Duo finally realized he was yelling, and lowered his voice to the normal level. "I didn't hear anything." He shrugged.
Wufei gave Duo a quick nod and walked to the door to see if their was anyone there. Of course he wouldn't hear anything! Duo and his stupid MTV. Wufei continued to rant on about how MTV was the pain of his existence, excluding Duo of course. The door was clear ,and after looking around and confirming no one was there, Wufei closed the door and walked into the library, thanking the designer of the house for putting it away from the TV room and Duo's blasting music. It seemed that Heero had decided to explore the house that morning and was wandering around the library, sniffing the shelves and intently looking at the books on the top shelves (2) With a determined look, little Heero began to climb up the different levels of shelves, treating them like stairs, trying to get to the top where an especially thick book was placed. Heero tried to pull the thick book down but it was wedged too tight against the others. Not giving up, he kept pulling and tugging on the book determined to get it down.
Awe he's so cute!
Wufei quickly ran to the shelves and grabbed the squirming cat boy. Heero was now cradled in his arms in a U position; his little feet a little lower then his head. With big accusing blue eyes, Heero looked up at Wufei and gave him a silent glare before glancing to his book. Heero's silent question asking Wufei, 'why the hell did you do that'? Wufei's head flickered from Heero's look to the book. The small cat boy obviously didn't notice that as he was trying to get the book, the shelves wobbled unsteadily. Heero was still ignoring Wufei, cradled in his arms snugly, looking at his book with fierce determination. Wufei sighed in defeat, and stretched up to pluck the large book of the shelf, handing it to the now happily squirming boy. (3)
The book weighed almost as much as the child in Wufei's arms, but despite its thickness and weight, Heero happily flipped through the pages, looking intently at the pages upon pages of small text. Wufei came to the library to get away from Duo's blasted music and having the small child happily reading in his lap didn't bother him at all. So he plopped down in a red sofa chair placed by one of the many shelves, and began to read a novel that had been placed their from a recent visit. It must have been hours before Duo came running into the room and found Wufei lounged back in his chair Heero curled up on his lap, book possessively clutched in his arms. (4)
Awe he's so cute!
The yells of "Heero's missing! Call the cops and FBI!" died down. Trowa appeared behind him, arms folded across his chest, shaking his head , bluntly telling Duo to shut up and calm down.
Breakfast progressed fast. No one spoke until Wufei made the observation that Quatre seemed to be missing. The food was on the table, and coffee was made when everyone came down so he couldn't be in bed still. The group started to get worried until a loud thump vibrated from the fireplace, and a loud scream echoed from its interior. With caution, Duo and Trowa moved into the living room, tentatively looking up the fireplace to see Quatre wedged between the two tight walls, wiggling violently trying to get out, screaming desperately for help.(6)
"Quatre, no one locked you out of the house!" Duo exclaimed for the forth time.
Quatre whipped the soot from his hair face and clothing as he sat on the now gritty kitchen chair. "Well the door didn't lock by itself!"
"None of us did it, if that's what you are suggesting." Wufei sighed, Heero sitting in his lap, watching with fascination. Quatre's gaze flickered over to the Kitten boy.
"You don't think Heero did it ,Quatre!" Duo exclaimed, Quatre looked away, telling Duo that he did "Heero's to short to reach the lock!" Duo pointed out. Everyone else agreed that it was impossible for the boy to reach.
"Lets just forget about it, no one got hurt." Trowa suggested
"Tro is right, I'm starving!" Duo yelled, digging into the bacon.
"You already had six pieces!" Wufei yelled, and the scramble for the bacon was on.
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Foot notes
(1)it seemed appropriate at the time…. I'll take you to the candy shop, I'll let you lick the lollipop ….hums disappear into background
(2) reminds me of stephers and her books. Her and her crazy books.
(3) like me and my Gundam wing DVD's! (They're mine now, Stephanie. mine! You gave them up the moment you let me touch them! MWAHAHAHA!):Runs off with DVD's:
(4)Quatre is small, and it's one of those huge fireplaces like in ski loges and such. (their rich Remember!)